Nostalgia

While most people watch football as a positive experience, as a release from outside pressures and troubles, there will always...

For fans over a certain age, mention Wimbledon and the infamous ‘Crazy Gang’ will soon work its way into the...

By Cameron Pope In the eyes of many a neutral, West Yorkshire club Huddersfield Town will long be the lower-division...

Eastern Europe in the ’70s and ’80s was a dark and mysterious place to us in the West. Contrasting ideologies...

With football currently suspended for the foreseeable, the best cure for your football fix is to look back through football...

Pink football kits have always been that type of kit that has raised eyebrows and one that are like marmite;...

It is a Friday morning. You are preparing to coach your players for tomorrow’s fixture against a promotion contender. You...

Team talks can be tricky things. Say the wrong thing at the wrong time and the result can be disastrous....

With Spurs currently flying high at the top of the Premier League and everyone having had a look at Jose...

James Bolam: Brazil 1982 One of the beauties of football, but also one of its tragedies is that the best...

You’d struggle to find anyone other than misty-eyed Chelsea fans who’d count this as a classic. Nearly a quarter-century on,...

With a new series of Strictly Come Dancing having started recently, it bought back memories of when John Barnes was...

In previous instalments, you have been ‘treated’ to the ramblings of a seriously annoyed middle-aged guy suffering from a severe...

A few weeks ago I started griping. Griping and shouting at the clouds, you might say. As a slightly grumpy...

Most of us these days have at one time or another owned a football shirt or two. Currently, kits have...

Although Shamrock Rovers were unable to topple Zlatan Ibrahimovic's AC Milan side in the UEFA Europa League, it was a...

Football shirts have never been as popular as they are now, as they have become a multi-billion pound industry. Kits...

The Intertoto Cup was never anything other than a bizarre wee competition. Set up in 1961, partly as a way...

Football grounds are the essence of football’s material infrastructure. They matter to us. Our complaints about the soulless ‘blandscape’ of...

When you think of the 2000/01 edition of the UEFA Champions League, you probably think of Bayern Munich’s triumph in...

From skimming his lyrics, or even just the titles of his numerous back catalogue of songs, it soon becomes clear...

The Nineteenth of June marked a day, which David de Gea and Manchester United fans all across the world would...

Matt Abbott tells us how days out following non-league Blyth Spartans around northern never regions helped to rekindle his love...

We’ve all heard of the term ‘American Dream’. A person succeeding despite the odds with grit, hard work and determination...

The phrase 'too good to go down' has been used for many years, sometimes accurately and sometimes with blind loyalty....

  My Love For Italian Football. Italian football is known for its revolutionary defensive tactics or catenaccio (the chain), which...

In the eleven qualification campaigns since the 1998 World Cup, poor management, squad in-fighting, an abrasive fan culture and general...

It's fair to say that when it comes to growing up a Scotland fan, I got my timings horribly wrong....

“Tonight at half-past eight o’clock, a number of gentlemen met at No. 3 Eglinton terrace for the purpose of forming...

As the season progressed into the early weeks of 1993, Sky continued to pour bucket-loads of money into hyping and...

In the eleven qualification campaigns since the 1998 World Cup, poor management, squad in-fighting, an abrasive fan culture and general...

“And then dance and drink and screw Because there's nothing else to do.” – Pulp, Common People The nineties gave...

Let me take you back in time... to the summer of 1992 to be precise. Sky Television had just taken...

In normal times, those with a footballing affliction would be starting to think about pre-season in June and July, looking...

Interestingly, over the last decade, the nature of football has changed. From a tactical standpoint, the next generation of managers...

You may not know this, but there was a time when Carlisle United were top of the league. The English...

The movers move, the shakers shake, the winners rewrite history (New Model Army, High, 2007) Having a teenage son take...

“I’d have went to the moon”, she said, with a steely, sincere gaze. “If they’d played football there, I’d have...

On 26th May 1989, Anfield prepared itself for one of the most climactic final day showdowns in English football history,...

Since the 1930s Turin's Juventus have also been considered one of the beautiful game's powerhouses. Between 1930 and the present...

It was Mark Twain who said the truth is stranger than fiction. His argument was that while fiction exists within...

Hoisted onto the shoulders of Brazilian defender Júlio César, Roberto Baggio, captain of Juventus, was the hero. Charging towards their...

Super Sunday is well ingrained into the fabric of televised football in this country. But it wasn’t always the case....

It’s not exactly a time to shout about at the moment for Huddersfield Town. Relegated from the Premier League on...

A final, a champion and a trophy - these seem like three core ingredients for a cup/knockout tournament in any...

The UEFA Champions League Final of the 1992/93 campaign stands out as being one of the competitions most notable fixtures...

June 1st 2020 marked one year since Liverpool made it six in Madrid. This leads me to think back across...

British football is full of stories. Some we know well, others we recall occasionally, whilst some have been forgotten about...

Liam Togher - the Republic of Ireland, 1988 England's 1966 World Cup winner Jack Charlton was the man who guided...

Ordinarily, May would see the climax of the club season both domestically and abroad, but the blight that is Covid-19...